My year of AI resistance. There’s hope!
AI is a fundamentally fascist technology expressly intended for the destruction, demoralization, and denigration of humans.
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Interiors: Garden Court, Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
Cover Reveal: “Faraway Star,” my upcoming science fiction novel.
Interiors: Entry hall of Haas-Lilienthal House, San Francisco.
Hitler’s American deejay: The strange story of Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars.
Four minutes of enlightening darkness: The great solar eclipse of May 1715.
More concept art for “Faraway Star” is out!
The Verge
Interiors: Garden Court, Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
This is one of the central features of the grand Edwardian-era hotel, completed in 1909.
Hitler’s American deejay: The strange story of Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars.
Four minutes of enlightening darkness: The great solar eclipse of May 1715.
Historic Photo: Panorama of San Francisco, 1878.
![Moses’s great boondoggle: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part II].](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cc/38/cc38d485-3f83-4ed4-95ed-586b53e0b5c5/content/images/size/w720/2026/04/worlds-fair-1964-2-unisphere.jpg)
Moses’s great boondoggle: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part II].
A bird out of hand: My reminiscences on the rise and fall of Twitter.
The death of Hu Yaobang: The first chapter of a story that changed the world.
The Outer Garden
My year of AI resistance. There’s hope!
AI is a fundamentally fascist technology expressly intended for the destruction, demoralization, and denigration of humans.
Cover Reveal: “Faraway Star,” my upcoming science fiction novel.
Interiors: Entry hall of Haas-Lilienthal House, San Francisco.
More concept art for “Faraway Star” is out!
![Moses’s great boondoggle: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part I].](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cc/38/cc38d485-3f83-4ed4-95ed-586b53e0b5c5/content/images/size/w720/2026/04/unisphere-wf-1964.jpeg)
Moses’s great boondoggle: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part I].
Toward a theory on the death of the Democratic Party.
The first concept art for “Faraway Star” is out!
The Inner Garden
Behind the Scenes: Millard Fillmore, The Conspiracy Theorist President.
My latest video profiles the strange life and odd beliefs of the 13th U.S. President.
Behind the Scenes: TWA, The Rise & Fall.
It’s Not Love, Actually: Watch me do an about-face on the world’s worst Christmas movie.
Behind the Scenes: China’s Long Revolution, 1900-1950.
Behind the Scenes: Brazil in the World Wars.
Searching for a story: A look at my chaotic writing process.
